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Expect your boys to like weapons. It’s true. You can take all their weapons away, and they will make a gun out of a piece of toast.
My son did this exact thing at 2 years old. He'd never been taught or shown how to do so. He just did it. Boys have inherent differences and that's wonderful.
“For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.”
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“We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son.”
― If: A Father's Advice to His Son
― If: A Father's Advice to His Son
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
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